-14.23% percent quarterly performance for Wendy’s Co (WEN) is not indicative of the underlying story

On Monday, Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ: WEN) was 2.50% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $12.00. A 52-week range for WEN has been $11.70 – $20.60.

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Consumer Cyclical Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 5.68% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at -4.46%. With a float of $174.76 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $195.85 million.

The firm has a total of 14500 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 34.66%, operating margin of 14.66%, and the pretax margin is 13.97%.

Wendy’s Co (WEN) Insider Activity

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Wendy’s Co stocks. The insider ownership of Wendy’s Co is 8.99%, while institutional ownership is 89.40%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 05 ’25, was worth 1,752,173. In this transaction President, U.S. of this company sold 136,819 shares at a rate of $12.81, taking the stock ownership to the 203,005 shares. Before that another transaction happened on May 05 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 136,819 for $12.55, making the entire transaction worth $1,717,078.

Wendy’s Co (WEN) Earnings and Forecasts

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -4.46% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 5.22% during the next five years compared to 12.83% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ: WEN) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Wendy’s Co (WEN) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 1.47. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.06. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 9.60.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.94, a number that is poised to hit 0.26 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.06 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Wendy’s Co (WEN)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Wendy’s Co, WEN], we can find that recorded value of 5.5 million was better than the volume posted last year of 5.34 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 32.35%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.46.

During the past 100 days, Wendy’s Co’s (WEN) raw stochastic average was set at 10.83%, which indicates a significant decrease from 44.12% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 30.30% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 32.12% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $13.79, while its 200-day Moving Average is $16.23. Now, the first resistance to watch is $12.48. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $12.65. The third major resistance level sits at $12.79. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $12.17, it is likely to go to the next support level at $12.03. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $11.86.

Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ: WEN) Key Stats

There are 192,025K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 2.36 billion. As of now, sales total 2,246 M while income totals 194,360 K. Its latest quarter income was 523,470 K while its last quarter net income were 39,230 K.